Sex and Gender Differences in Infection and Treatments for Infectious Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Klein, Sabra L. (Editor), Roberts, Craig W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Infectious diseases.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

This book provides an overview of the underlying sex-based and hormone-based differences in immunity, wound healing and pharmacokinetics, while also exploring how pregnancy affects immunity. The second part of the book shows, for the first time in a single volume, the growing number of infectious di...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1 Genes hormones and immunity
• Sex difference in the immune response
• Sex chromosomes and immune function
• Sex and sex hormone mediated differences in wound healing
• Immunology of pregnancy and systemic consequences
• Sex differences in metabolism and pharmacokinetics
• Section 2 Infectious diseases and treatments
• HIV infection and responses to antiretroviral therapies
• Influenza virus infection and vaccination
• Hemorrhagic fever viruses and antiviral therapies
• Tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment
• Respiratory bacterial infection and treatments
• Outcome of bacterial and viral infections and vaccinations in neonates
• Sexually transmitted bacterial infection in women
• Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment
• Protozoan and helminth infections and treatments.